Risk Assessment and Scaffolding courses

The Institute of Health and Safety, in conjuction with the Royal Society for the Promotion Health, is organising its next Risk Assessment course on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday between 2.30 and 5.30 p.m. at the Institute of Health and Safety, Martin Court, University Street, Msida.

The aim of this course is to introduce savings in time spent on supplier audits, increasing efficiency and improving the working environment, enable the participants to carry out a risk assessment for their workplace, across the full range of health and safety concerns. Most importantly, such an assessment will contribute towards a safer working environment.

Managers, supervisors, health and safety practitioners, assistants and middle management with authority and responsibility for health and safety matters in their organisation are able to attend.

This is a nine-hour course spread over three days. An exam will be held during the last session to confirm the successful delivery of the course.

Course content will include legal requirements for risk assessment and risk management principles; management control of risk; risk and hazard - their meaning; the inventory of hazard and its updating; identifying hazard associated with each source; rating of the risk associated with each hazard; selecting the appropriate workplace precautions for specific risks; and recording the results of risk assessment and their periodical reviews.

Dr Mario Spiteri, Dip.PH, MA (Ed.), Ph.D., FRSH, MHCIMA, MIOSH, a health promotion specialist who has lectured at the universities of Malta and Southampton and introduced the subjects of food hygiene and nutrition as well as health and safety at the Institute of Tourism Studies, will conduct the course.

Dr Spiteri is also an approved tutor for courses offered by the internationally acclaimed Royal Society for the Promotion of Health of the UK.

The fee for this course is Lm60, excluding VAT, per participant. The fee covers the examination, refreshment notes, an HIS certificate and a certificate from the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health.

The IHS is also organising a Scaffolding course on Wednes-day, Friday and Monday, March 21, between 1 and 5 p.m., at the Institute's premises.

This course is aimed at supervisors and foremen and is also important to other people, namely those who make use of scaffolding and personnel involved in the erection or dismantling of these structures.

It is a 16-hour course spread over four sessions and will cover basic theory on scaffolding; basic components of a system scaffold; setting out the base and preparation; independent scaffold sequence of erection and access bay; ties/braces and the use of tube and fittings and their requirements; independent scaffold using bridging beams and tube/fittings; mobile scaffolds; code of practice in the construction and building industry; legal obligations - Legal Notice 44 of 2002 Work Place (Minimum Health & Safety Reuirments and Regulations 2002); scaffold site check list; and practical erection of tower.

The fee for this course is Lm45, excluding VAT, per participant.

For further information on both courses, contact Marylouise Said on 2131-1966 or e-mail info@ihs.com.mt.